character vs grain

character

noun
  • Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength. 

  • A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group. 

  • A being involved in the action of a story. 

  • A person or individual, especially one who is unknown. 

  • Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty. 

  • One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character. 

  • A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene. 

  • A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type. 

  • A written or printed symbol, or letter. 

  • A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma. 

grain

noun
  • Temper; natural disposition; inclination. 

  • The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles. 

  • A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant. 

  • Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa. 

  • Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons. 

  • One of the branches of a valley or river. 

  • The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley. 

  • A blade of a sword, knife, etc. 

  • A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction. 

  • A single particle of a substance. 

  • The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity. 

  • An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly. 

  • A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core. 

  • The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg. 

  • The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine. 

  • A single seed of grass food crops. 

  • The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side. 

  • Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times. 

  • The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff. 

  • A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. 

  • The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg. 

  • The crops from which grain is harvested. 

  • A linear texture of a material or surface. 

  • A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple. 

verb
  • To remove the hair or fat from a skin. 

  • To feed grain to. 

  • To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood. 

  • To soften leather. 

  • To make granular; to form into grains. 

  • To yield fruit. 

  • To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate. 

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